Dear Friends, The IASSIST Communications Committee is very happy to announce that the back issues of IQ – ALL of the back issues, back to 1976 – are now available on the IASSIST web site. In the left sidebar where you are able to select from a few back issues, you may recall there is a link at the bottom to More issues. That link can now transport you back to the early days of the association.
Hi folks! A lovely gift for your reading pleasure over the holidays, we present two, yes, TWO issues of the IASSIST Quarterly. The first is the double issue, 38(4)/39(1) with guest editors, Joachim Wacherow of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany and Mary Vardigan of ICPSR at the University of Michigan, USA. This issue focuses on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and how it makes meta-analysis possible.
Open Repositories conference celebrated its first decade by having four full days of exciting workshops, keynotes, sessions, 24/7 talks, and development track and repository interest group sessions in Indianapolis, USA. All the fun took place in the second week of June. The OR2015 conference was themed “Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads” and it brought over 400 repository developers and managers, librarians and library IT professionals, service providers and other experts to hot and humid Indy.
**Editor notes: ** Data, the whole Data, and nothing but the Data … and the Metadata, and the Access to Data Welcome to the third issue of volume 38 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 38:3, 2014). This issue is unquestionably about data. There are three papers on projects for improving delivery of data to users. The first paper is ‘Distributing Access to Data, not Data’ by David Schiller from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at Nuremberg (Germany) and Richard Welpton at UK Data Archive, University of Essex (UK).
Dear IASSIST Members, In our call for this year’s conference we included a new Paper Track that would require members to submit a full paper in advance of the conference. We also created a best paper competition as an incentive to submit. I have the pleasure to announce a winner of our first IASSIST Paper Competition! The winning paper was “Sustainability of Social Science Data Archives: A Historical Network Perspective” by Kristin R.
Hello IASSISTers! Here are the official results of the 2015 IASSIST elections. There was a 61% voter turnout. The winning candidates are: President: Tuomas Alaterä Vice President: Jen Green Secretary: Ryan Womack Africa Regional Secretary: Lynn Woolfrey Asia-Pacific Regional Secretary: Sam Spencer Canada Regional Secretary: Carol Perry Europe Regional Secretary: David Schiller USA Regional Secretary: San Cannon AC Member, Canada: Berenica Vejvoda AC Members, Europe: Oliver Watteler and Arne Wolters
The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2015 conference in Minneapolis [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/iassist-2015/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.
Editor’s notes Special issue: A pioneer data librarian Welcome to the special volume of the IASSIST Quarterly(IQ (37):1-4, 2013). This special issue started as exchange of ideas between Libbie Stephenson and Margaret Adams to collect papers relating to the work of Sue A. Dodd. Margaret Adams (Peggy) acted as the guest editor and the background and content of this volume is described in her preface to this volume on the following page.
Editor’s notes Special issue: The organizational dimension of digital preservation Welcome to the special double issue 3 & 4 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 36 (2012). This special issue addresses the organizational dimension of digital preservation as it was presented and discussed at the IASSIST conference in May 2013 in Cologne, Germany. The two guest editors Astrid Recker and Natascha Schumann from the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne have earned special thanks.
The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2014 conference in Toronto [http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/iassist/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.
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